I just discovered Listen Notes, which is a search engine for podcasts. I feel like I'm going to use this a lot. https://www.listennotes.com/
Listen Notes: The best podcast search engine
The most comprehensive podcast database online. Discover best podcasts. Search podcast show notes and audio transcripts by people, places, or topics.
listennotes.com
Flying out of Boston this evening to go back to Tanzania! It's quite a convoluted itinerary. I'll fly to Dubai, then after a 12 hour layover, fly to Kenya, to Dr es Salaam in Tanzania, then finally to Moshi
One thing the 90s got right was how horrific it is to answer email
I usually hate flashbacks in TV shows. They feel like they interrupt the flow of the story and place too much emphasis one or two past events that shaped the characters. But I'm watching Broadchurch series two and am liking how they use flashbacks.
"People do care about having better digital lives and they will act on it if they can — but users are smart and they've been fooled before: they need evidence that it's not just an improvement in your head." https://berjon.com/decent-imaginaries/
Decent Imaginaries
The digital sphere appears to be at an inflection point and we need to imagine what comes next as this era rots and burns. Imagining a renewed, decentralised world is difficult, but we can pull it off...
berjon.com
This will be so cool to have!
Bramus@bram.us · 3y ago🤩 Exciting news from the @CSSWG F2F. We just resolved on adding sibling-count() and sibling-index() to css-values-5 ED! 🥳 This was the #1 request we heard from authors at @CSSDayConf. Yes, we *are* listening to you. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4559
Shopping on Amazon for a phone case. You can filter for anything but phone model—which is the most important detail! Searching for Samsung case and getting results for iPhone! We are nowhere near the computers taking over the world. Or if they do, we are all in trouble.
First things to do after you win the lottery: 1.) Keep using Linux so nobody will suspect you
Working on logic for saving annotations. Already see flaws with how I'm thinking it through.
BIG NEWS! We're launching a podcast! The Causal Islands 🏝️ Podcast will feature thought-provoking interviews with leading experts in distributed systems, AI, computing, and more, exploring the intricate connections between tech + society and how they will shape our future.
Very interesting conversation. I love hearing how different people organize their notes.
Rosano@rosano.ca · 3y ago> [Notes are inescapably chronological, even without organizing as a (b)log. Everything is written in the context of one's personal development, or in terms of history, or as humanity evolves—nothing is really devoid of time.] nerding out with @bmann.ca https://rosano.ca/n-a-t-t
I have a bad habit of overthinking things, but I am learning that sometimes the best way to learn something is to get your hands dirty with it. https://thoughts.delightfullabs.com/thinking-as-you-go
Thinking As You Go
I am notorious for overthinking things. I have barely learned to swim because whenever I try to learn I overthink all the different parts...
thoughts.delightfullabs.com
If you don't hear from me again it's because I ate the airport sandwich.
There are definitely benefits to standard file formats such as plain text, but the devil is in the details! I wrote some thoughts about files and apps: https://write.as/mjamesderocher/thoughts-on-files-over-apps
Thoughts on Files over Apps
There's lots of nuance around files vs apps. There has been an article that has gotten some people choosing sides between whether apps or...
write.as
"it’s easy to get caught up in creating abstractions everywhere. We see two screens that look alike, or two features that behave more-or-less the same, and our first impulse is to create a shared class or component to keep things DRY." https://www.maxiferreira.com/blog/architecture-astronauts/
Don't Become an Architecture Astronaut | Maxi Ferreira
When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the unive...
maxiferreira.com
Social media strategy in the age of Threads, Twitter and Bluesky.
The first version of the PomoDB (Rhizome Database) high level spec is up! https://github.com/RhizomeDB/spec @quinnwilton.com is working hard on getting the initial code into people's hands, too!
WordPress Full Site Editing looks extremely promising. There have been site editor plugins for years, but none of them were enjoyable to use. There are definitely a bunch of questions to answer and kinks to work out, but it's very exciting!
I hiked down into the Grand Canyon yesterday. Because of the heat and elevation gain, it was probably the most strenuous hike I've ever done. But the views were absolutely worth it!
